Haunting, hilarious, exquisitely inventive - Mark Ford

'Every time I think a new thought I can smell an old one burning.' Emily Berry

Dear beauteous Death! the jewel of the just...

a talent for avoiding the predictable and deconstructing the recognisable - Stride

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

The last English modernist ? Guardian

Celebratory, mournful, critical and tender - Poetry London

Beautiful Girls is not a book for the faint-hearted: it will survive as testament to poetry's force in overcoming - Chris McCabe

Yaa de Villiers' silence-smashing poems (in this manner reminiscent of Carol Ann Duffy's The World's Wife) are sensitive, unafraid to be erotic, sometimes tragic, and always irreverent - Tolu Ogunlesi, Wasafiri magazine

Tough, explicit and wickedly clever - Alan Brownjohn

Poetry is our human love of metaphor. We see one thing and think something else - 'Travels in Peru', Geoffrey Lehmann

Gerard Benson's poetry transfigures the ordinary and leaves an aftertaste of mystery in the mind.Michael Glover, The Independent